Device for resealing bottles.



`PA'IENTED NOV. 26, 1907.

y J. R. scoTT.

DEVICE PoR RESEALING BOTTLES.

APPLIATION FILED AUG. 27, l1907.

l porarily` elosingand rei-sealing bottles coni Y 10 JOHN R. SCOTT, OF OAKLAND, OA'IFORNIA. i

DEVICE FDR RESEALING BOTTLES.

Specification of Letters Fatent.

Patented Nov. 26, 19072 Appiano sied August 27, i907. serai No. 390,278`

.of which the following is a speeiiication.

My invention relates to a .device for teni taining beer and other efervescent liquids, and `Whieh bottles are usually closed and sealed permanently at the factory or bots tling Works by little 'metal caps compressed on over the mouth of 'the bottles.

Itis well known that beer, ginger-ale, and otherbcverages, soon lose their elfervescent qualities if they are opened and allowed to remain open, soon becoming ilat and stale. l. have devised a simple, practical, handy dcvice fbywhich the crown cap can be quickly and easily replaced on the bottle, and held tightly thereto, so as to 1i1escrve the contents of the bottle inthe iiiost advantageous and satisfactoryf manner. i

'lhe invention consists of the parts and the construction and. combination of arts as i i hereinafter more fully described and c aimed,

having reference to the accompanying drawings, 1n wihiclrf Figure '1 is a sectional View of the device in l.closedposition. l? ig. 2 is a sectional view of Fig. 3 is a plan the device before closing.

Fig. 4 is a view of the pasteboard water.

formof cap, and Fig. 5 is a lplan View of a crown. Y

A represents an ordinary beer bottle closed bytheusual cap 2, commonly known as a crown seal, or crown cap. The latter has the convoluted flange engaging under the usual bead 3 on the bottle. A cork or like Wafer orldisk 4 inside the cap, 'makes a pernianentitight joint when the cap is properly put `on at the bottling works, While those caps are easily removed with the right kind of a tool, it is very dill icult, if not impossible, to gut them back on again by hand.

represents my device, which is prefierably in the forni oi a cylinder having such. an interior construction that when it is placed over a cap on the bottle and pushed down at its lower edge, as shown in Fig. 1,

and forni alight seal. rlliis downward seating movement ol the cap, and the lateral compression on the cap, are obtained by inwardl'y and upwardly lieveling the lower end of the cylinder or scaling cop l, es shown at 6, so that when the cylinder or sealing cap is placed loose over a crown clip 2, the beveled edge (i will scat and be supported on the top of the spring'y points 5 of the crown cap. 'lhen by pressing down by hand on top of the sealing cap, the beveled edge (i will -ride over the points 5, compressing the ilange of the crown cap, so that it engages snug under the bend 2S on the bottle; the sealing rap B being pushed down far enough so that the straight interior portion 7 oi the cap l will ride a short distance over the points 5, so that the cap B exerts a direct radial prossure inwardly, to clamp and to hold the crown can on the bottle. '.lhus the beveled portion o serves to force down the cap on to the bottle and to compress the llange of the crown cap innleriieath the bead, while the straight cylii'idrical portion 7 of the cap opcrates as a clamp to hold the crown cap in position and to seal the bottle.

li'heii the bottle is to bc opened to pour another drink, or to empty its contents, the y device B is removed, and the crown capI will either come od with the device B, or else it can bercmoved by any ap ropiate means. The device B remains on toe crown cap as long as the latter is on the bottle.

The cylinder i3 need. not be over ive eighths or three-quin'ters of an inch high,

and it may be open at both ends,las shown in Fig. t er it iiiay be closed at the top and4 provided with an annular outside lanwe 8 which the preferred forni. 'llie flange S gives a good ha dliold for the putting en and tali; oi'l' of the device.

Frequently the coi-li disk ll will be found iinpiired Ywhen the crown cap is taken. oil ci the bottle, so that it the saine cap is ut baclf; onto the bottle it will not vforni a )ei 'eet closure to preserve the contents of the ottle. 'llierelform .l prefer to use a small wafer or disk ol' pasteboaid or the like, as shown at 10. Il'v a bottle has been partly emptied and it desired to re-seal it for the time being, I place one ol' the wafers or bushings 10 inside of the crown cap 2, and` re-seal the bottle with iny device B. The bushing 10 is preferably formed with an annular groove 11 corresponding to the rounded mouth of 'the'bottI-e, and to the annular depression in thecorl disk 4. The bushing 10, in conjunction With'mysealing cap B, insures an absolutely 'tight' seal, vand a convenient means 4for re-fsealing partially emptied bot! described my invention, what Iclaim and'fdesire to secure by Letters PatentS-Vfgi. The combination with a bottle having an yannular outside bead adjacent to the l l mouthg'of the bottle, of a crown cap to fit the bottle,"said'croWn cap having conlpressible sfides'with means to engageunderneath the bead, and a cylindrical hand device litti'ng over the' crown cap to compress and lock-the cap on the bottle.k

' 2. The combination vvith ay bottle having fan annular outside bead adjacent to the mouth of the bottle, of a' crown cap to lit the bottle, said crown cap having compressible sides With means to engage ,underneath the bead, a cylindrical hand device fltting'over the crown cap to compress and lock the cap on the bottle, and a bushing inserted inside the cap and over the mouth of the bottle to `form a tight joint when the bottle isre-sealed.

nular flange with meensmto engage puden neath the bead,'anda sealing` device leoniprising a cylindrical member having an `in- Wardly beveled edge at one end arranged tov push down onto the cap and to compress said flange into engagement with the bead, and said sealing member having also a straight interior portion fitting over the compressed' flange of the crown cap to hold said flange in engagement with said bead.

' In testimony whereof I have hereunto Set f my hand .in presence of two subscribing Witnesses. f

JOHN R;l SQQTT. \Witnesses i S. H. Nonnen, FREDERICK E. MAYNARD. 

